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Royal Canal Greenway

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭jonnybravo


    They were looking at the part under the bridge. Must have gone okay as they've put down new tarmac so much better now. The piece meal stopping and starting along this stretch is terrible.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭jonnybravo


    From where the two flashing signs are placed its only going to be a small stretch being done along where those new apartments are (around 200ms). Closed for 3 months seems mental for such a small stretch.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭I told ya


    Is there any update on the Castleknock to Confey section?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭Phil.x


    Any update in this being completed, I've less than 20years before retirement and would like to get an ev-bike into work



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,753 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    I would encourage you get one, without waiting for the Deep Sinking section of the Royal Canal Greenway.

    You can use the existing greenway between 12th Lock and Docklands station and Dublin Port. To get to the 12th Lock some of the quiet routes I mapped out might work for you.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭AlanG


    great map thanks,
    one Q - the gate from Royal Canal Greenway into navan road station - is it open permanently now for access?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,753 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    I don't know. I'm always at the front of the train and I haven't checked when cycling on the towpath.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭raheny red


    I was looking down on it from the station on Friday, it's very overgrown now. Doubt you'd make it along the path. Forgot to check if the gate was open then.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,627 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Porterstown bridge to the Hansfield rail bridge is fine on a gravel/mountain bike, or something with decent tyres. its not separated but is generally wide enough, although you may get some angry looks from walkers.

    Porterstown to Coolmine is too narrow, and has explicit signs up for no cycling.

    Coolmine to Castleknock is a muddy mess last time I went over there, barely walkable never mention cycleable.

    Hansfield out to Confey is a grassy path mostly, alternative route would be to divert onto the new barnhill road through hansfield, onto passifyoucan then south to Leixlip/Confey on that (generally) quiet country road (allenswood lane?)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,753 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    My experience on Porterstown to Coolmine is different. Since they put down some gravel it's much better. When running on it the gravel has smoothened out the sections that had lots of roots. I also think that it has been widened by cutting back some bushes.

    I didn't notice the 'No cycling' signs.

    I cycled to Leixlip Louisa Bridge a year or two ago on a hybrid bike. It was horrible when the tarmc around Clonsilla ended. I was thrown around by the bumps. Porterstown to Clonsilla was bliss in comparison.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,480 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I believe all the garden extensions are squatting, and squatting on state land gives you near to no adverse possession rights.

    30 year claim period, and reset if a state agent so much as visits the land in the interim more or less.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,753 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    I'd heard that Waterways Ireland allowed the garden extensions. I think the logic was that the area would be better maintained by residents than Waterways Ireland.

    The proposed route with the south-to-north bridge avoids any issues with those extensions, and provides for a pedestrian/cycle tunnel under Castleknock Road. This helps benefits commuters getting the train so they don't have to struggle to cross Castleknock Road.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,792 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    The post you were replying to is from two years ago, which is a nice illustration of how little Fingal and Waterways have managed to achieve on this project.

    A small number of houses close to Castleknock station have long leases on the land up to canal bank in order to maintain it. They are legally in possession but since the greenway will be on the other side, it's not relevant.

    From what I've heard, plenty of other houses will have no problem asserting squatters' rights, even with the 30 year minimum.

    One house near the planned footbridge has already performed a mass clearance of vegetation in the last few weeks and put up a new fence to make "his" property boundary very clear.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,480 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I would prefer the state spend over and above any CPO price, if required, in legal fees to assert the 30 year term resetting basis to stop anyone getting a cent from squatting.

    It isn't just a simple change to 30 years, you need to prove agents of the state had nothing to do with the land at all for 30 years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,792 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    I would prefer the state spend over and above any CPO price, if required, in legal fees to assert the 30 year term resetting basis to stop anyone getting a cent from squatting.

    But how long will that take? I understand the principle but delaying the project even longer just to make a point seems counter-productive.

    But Fingal are adamant that no land acquisition or CPOs are needed so maybe it's a non-issue.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,056 ✭✭✭donaghs


    From where to where? It’s not possible now?

    Certainly the “deep sinking section” can be bypassed by relatively safe roads.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭Phil.x


    From Clonsilla to spencerdock. Ive done it many times before joining the canal from castleknock, but in an ideal world with a fully paved canal path with a decent electric bike I think it would be a real everyday alternative to the overcrowded spencerdock train.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,144 ✭✭✭muckwarrior


    One house near the planned footbridge has already performed a mass clearance of vegetation in the last few weeks and put up a new fence to make "his" property boundary very clear.

    That clearing work was performed by Waterways Ireland.



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